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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has taken the oath of office in neighbouring Senegal, while the country’s longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh has refused to step down. Barrow, the winner of December 1 election, was inaugurated on Thursday at Gambia’s embassy in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. Yahya Jammeh, the repressive leader of Gambia who […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will today begin a short vacation to United Kingdom, according to a statement from the presidency. He is expected to return to work on February 6, 2017. The statement says during the vacation, the President will also undergo medical check-ups. “In line with Section 145 (1) of […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
*Team Includes Consortium of Heirs Holdings Group Executives Davos, Switzerland – Philanthropist and serial entrepreneur Tony O. Elumelu, CON leads a delegation of senior executives from his proprietary investment firm, Heirs Holdings, to the World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins in Davos, Switzerland today. Elumelu will join global business and political leaders during the event, bringing […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
AFRICAN EXAMINER — Gambia headed late Wednesday toward a midnight showdown between a president who refuses to leave office and a president-elect who insists he will take power, while a regional force moved toward the country’s borders in a threat to intervene. Hours before the end of President Yahya Jammeh’s mandate, legislators voted to extend […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The present acute scarcity of kerosene being witnessed in parts of Nigeria, has worsened in Enugu state, south- East Nigeria, as a litre of the essential commodity is now sold for 600 naira and above, as against the official pump price of 150. African Examiner Correspondent […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has declared that he would not defect from his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as being pressurised by APC senators and rumoured in political circles. Senators Kabiru Marafa (APC Zamfara Central) and Abdullahi […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as ”utterly” tragic the accidental bombing of a civilian community in Rann, Tuesday in Borno State, by a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jet. The Minister expressed sadness in his condolences to the families of those who died in the […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Foremost industrialist and President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote on Tuesday told the audience at the World Economic Forum (WEF) holding in Davos Switzerland that a joint effort between government and private sector to tackle the power deficit remained a key element in boosting the economy of Africa. Dangote, who […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Davos, Switzerland, 17 January 2017 – The United Bank for Africa (UBA) will be strongly represented at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins in Davos, Switzerland today. UBA CEO Kennedy Uzoka leads a senior executive team, at one of the most important events on the global economic calendar. The UBA delegation will interact with global business and political leaders during the event. The delegation will also include Group Head […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Lagos; Nigeria; 17 January 2017: United Capital Plc, a leading African investment banking group, has partnered with global financial and corporate institutions to set up a Franco-African Investment Fund (FFA), with investible funds of 77 million euro. The aim of the fund is to accelerate the growth of innovative and entrepreneurial African and French small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) with […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has expressed schock over the recent solidarity visit to Governor Nyesom Wike by former ministers who served in the administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Chief (Dr.) Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, described […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heritage Bank has embarked on mass retrenchment of its workers with 400 staff sacked in December. Investigations on Monday indicated that more workers are penciled for sack. The bank, in October 2014, acquired Enterprise Bank with about N56bn ($281m). A top management source in the bank, who pleaded anonymity, said […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With 24 hours to the expiration of his mandate, President Yahya Jammeh is digging in. He has declared a 90-day state of emergency. But Nigeria has deployed a warship in readiness to launch an attack. The warship, NSS Unity is on the move in readiness to launch an attack. The […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Army said an Air Force fighter jet on a mission to take out Boko Haram militants mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing some humanitarian aid workers of the International Committee of Red Cross, ICRC, and the Medicines Sans Frontiers, MSF, and some civilians in Kala Balge in Borno. Media […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The second prosecution witness and an official of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Mr. Amazi Nwachukwu standing in the Senate President Bukola Saraki false assets declaration trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has given details on how funds were transfered into various account of the accused. Nwachukwu who […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK Prime Minister Mrs. Theresa May has declared Britain “cannot possibly” remain within the European single market, as staying in it would mean “not leaving the EU at all”. Still, she promised to push for the “greatest possible” access to the single market due to Brexit. Mrs. Theresa in a […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
By Ignatius Okpara OWERRI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER). – The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ Owerri, Imo state, South- East Nigeria, has hinted that its anti-smuggling unit seized a total of three hundred and seven (307) contraband valued over four billion in 2016. A statement issued by its Public Relations Officer PRO, Onuigbo […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – “Happy New Year, my brother” “What do you mean happy new year, more than two weeks into the New Year. Have I not been in touch with you since January 1?” “But for you the New Year has just started. Your January 1 was not on January 1” “Looks like […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
By Seun Adebosin BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Further assurance has been given that the supply logjam which often impedes stable availability of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, (LPG), otherwise called cooking gas, may soon be over. The certainty followed the signal from the West Africa Gas Ltd (WAGL), a Joint Venture Company of Nigerian National Petroleum […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has allayed fears of residents on suspected explosive substance which was allegedly dropped in a manhole in one of the Streets in Agege area of the State, saying that the development was nothing to worry about. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who briefed […]
